- A
bomb vessel,
bomb ship,
bomb ketch, or
simply bomb was a type of
wooden sailing naval ship. Its
primary armament was not
cannons (long guns or carronades)...
- USS
Vesuvius was a
bomb ketch, and the
first ship of the
United States Navy
named for the
Italian volcano.
Vesuvius was
built by
Jacob Coffin at Newburyport...
- ammunition.
Early bomb vessels were
rigged as
ketches with two masts. They were
awkward vessels to handle, in part
because bomb ketches typically had the...
-
Ghost Rider (Daniel "Danny"
Ketch) is a
fictional character appearing in
American comic books published by
Marvel Comics. He is the
third Marvel character...
- she
served as
Mastico (referred to as "Martigana" in one do****ent). The
bomb ketch was one of
several Tripolitan vessels which captured Philadelphia on 31...
-
Countess of
Scarborough on the other. USS Vengeance (1805) was used as a
bomb ketch against the
Barbary pirates in the
early 19th century.
Demerliac (1996)...
- A
ketch is a two-masted
sailboat whose mainmast is
taller than the
mizzen mast (or aft-mast), and
whose mizzen mast is
stepped forward of the
rudder post...
-
February 16, 1804, a
small contingent of U.S.
Marines in a
captured Tripolitan ketch rechristened USS Intrepid and led by
Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, Jr. were...
-
vessel launched in 1741 and sold in 1754. HMS Terror (1759) was an 8-gun
bomb ketch launched in 1759 for the
British Royal Navy that it sold in 1774. New...
- the
United States Navy at Boston, M****achusetts, in 1805 for use as a
bomb ketch against the
Barbary pirates.
Commanded by
Lieutenant William Lewis, she...
